True the Vote's goal is "to man each and every voting location with a trained poll watcher to ensure the integrity of the (recall) election," according to its website.

The Tea Party-backed group hosted in-person and online election observer training from May to June in an effort to prevent what the group described as "Wisconsin's long history of election fraud."

But Phil Walzak, Barrett for Wisconsin deputy campaign manager, alleged in a news release that True the Vote's related Texas organization, The King Street Patriots, "have dropped so-called 'election observers' into polling locations across the state" after "they already came to Wisconsin once and intimidated recall petition signers."

The Wisconsin Department of Justice prosecuted 20 incidents of voter fraud in Milwaukee County in 2008, which Democrats say shows fraud at the polls is infrequent in Wisconsin.